The suits--if an alt.-weekly's suits can be called suits--decided it was better to get the site up now can catch everything up on the fly than to wait until everything was perfect. That way your helpful comments could be rolled into our to-do lists, which we've promptly thrown in the trash. We here in the Clocktower especially appreciate the suits choosing to do this right before fucking CHRISTMAS!, which is, of course, the least stressful time of the year. And they wonder why we're godless heathens!

One problem - throws away all search engines. Instead of getting the specific story you just get the home page.

We are indeed throwings them away, but not until our all new improved search engine is up, hopefully in days, not weeks.

I miss how the old site lets you search for restaurants according to different categories (such as cities).

Wow, me too! A new improved dining thingie is also in the pipeline. Or is it on that to-do list we threw away? Or did we just roll something in it and smoke it? Rememberin's hard!

You took something simple and made it complicated Thanks

You're very welcome.

I don't like the new format. I find it hard to get where I want to go, and once there it doesn't seem to work. I accessed adult, escorts, and got page one, but when I clicked next I didn't get the next page, it took me back to the home page.

Finally, you know how we don't like to boast, but we would like to direct your attention to this review from our blood brothers and sistahs at OC Blog. Thanks for the kind words, which, of course, we fully understand will be retracted the next time we say something stupid, especially if it's about you.

Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before "graduating" to OC Weekly in 1995 as the paper's first calendar editor. He has contributed as a freelance editor and writer to several publications and been the subject of or featured in several reports online, in print and on the radio and television. One of countless times he returned to his Costa Mesa, CA, home with a bounty of awards from a journalism competition, his wife told him to take out the trash.